2013 || A Look Back

2013 || A Look Back

Twelve images, from a total of 604, recapping 6 months of 2013 travel through North & Central America & Europe.

Antigua, Guatemala

Antigua, Guatemala

A pictorial look at a return to UNESCO-listed Antigua in Guatemala, one of Central America’s most historic & most photogenic Colonial towns.

Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala

Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala

The last of the central highland Mayan villages I visited during this trip to Guatemala was Santiago Atitlan, a 90-minute boat ride across Lake Atitlan, Central America’s deepest lake, from my base in Pana. Time for a boat ride on Lago de Atitlan Day 445...
Chichicastenango (Chichi), Guatemala

Chichicastenango (Chichi), Guatemala

The most famous of the Guatemalan highland village markets, and probably the most famous market in Central America (& certainly the most photographed), is the one in Chichicastenango, or Chichi for short. On Thursday & Sunday, market days, the local indigenous...
Solola, Guatemala, Central America

Solola, Guatemala, Central America

Panajachel, a.k.a. Pana (thankfully Guatemalans like to shorten their town names), is going to be a nice base. Its location in the highlands of Guatemala & on the shores of Lago de Atitlán (Lake Atitlán) is stunning, surrounded as it is by many picturesque...
Riding The Chicken Bus in Central America || Busted

Riding The Chicken Bus in Central America || Busted

I love travelling when I’m travelling. So getting around Guatemala, and Central America in general, is going to be fun. It was today, a thwarted pickpocketing aside. And that’s thanks to the so-called chicken buses, the large, noisy, colourful, carbon...
Antigua, Guatemala || An Introduction

Antigua, Guatemala || An Introduction

When travelling in the Central American country of Guatemala it’s hard to avoid Antigua (not that one should, of course). I didn’t avoid it for long spending most of yesterday, my third day in the country, on buses getting here from Flores in the north. Long day...
Flores, Guatemala, Central America

Flores, Guatemala, Central America

Belize. Now there’s a Central American aberration for sure. Guatemala is more like it – more Latin American. It’s early days of course but so far, so good. I arrived in Flores in northern Guatemala a few days ago after a long cross-border bus ride...
Tikal, Guatemala, Central America

Tikal, Guatemala, Central America

Tikal is Guatemala’s blue-ribboned Mayan ruins, somewhere I’ve just returned from (I could have done without the stupid o’clock / 4 a.m. start this morning). This is the sixth set Mayan ruins I’ve visited in three different countries since...

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